Criticality vs Subcritical - What's the difference?
criticality | subcritical |
The state of being critical
(education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.
(physics) The point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining
Less than critical, or below criticality
(physics) Having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction
In physics|lang=en terms the difference between criticality and subcritical
is that criticality is (physics) the point at which a nuclear reaction becomes self-sustaining while subcritical is (physics) having insufficient mass to sustain a chain reaction.As a noun criticality
is the state of being critical.As an adjective subcritical is
less than critical, or below criticality.criticality
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Noun
(wikipedia criticality) (criticalities)Derived terms
* criticality accident * criticality matrix * dry criticality * wet criticality * recriticalitysubcritical
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Adjective
(-)- a subcritical reactor